Jack Warner's extradition permanently stayed

Former FIFA vice president Austin “Jack” Warner has won a decade-long legal battle to avoid extradition to the United States, where he faces corruption charges linked to one of football's biggest scandals.

Trinidad and Tobago's High Court on Tuesday permanently stayed extradition proceedings against the 82 year old Warner, ruling that the process was flawed in the absence of an official extradition agreement between the two countries.

Warner was among 14 individuals indicted by us prosecutors in May 2015 in a 47-count charge that included racketeering and bribery.

Since then, he had fought extradition at every legal level, including the judicial committee of the Privy Council in London, which dismissed his appeal in November 2022, effectively clearing the way for extradition.